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Miss Russia Supports Pussy Riot

I agree.

MOSCOW—Miss Russia 2013 said on Saturday that the sentencing of punk rockers Pussy Riot to two years in prison for their protest performance in a Moscow cathedral was too harsh a punishment.

Maria Alyokhina, 24, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 23, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30, were sent to prison camps in August after performing an anti-Kremlin “prayer” in February last year at Moscow’s main Russian Orthodox cathedral.

“I’ve graduated from a Sunday school and a place of worship for me is something sacred,” Elmira Abdrazakova, who was named Miss Russia 2013 earlier this month, told the Russkaya Sluzhba Novostei radio station. “But still, their punishment is too harsh.”

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Foreign Affairs + Law

1. Is that liberal Bloomberg in charge of Moscow too?

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